Marshall Society: Welcome Back!
Hello everyone and welcome back to Cambridge!
We’re kicking off AY 2024-25 with a range of exciting events, so keep an eye out for our term card which we’ll be releasing very soon!
This week we’re starting the term off with our Fresher’s Welcome Event on the 16th and our first Gin+GDP of the year on the 20th. See below for further details!
We’re also thrilled to announce sponsorships with Bridgewater and Jane Street. For those interested in Bridgewater’s 2025 Investment Associate Internships, the firm is hosting virtual and in-person info sessions on the 14th and 22nd. Further details below!
Please also join our new Whatsapp group chat for more immediate updates on our events and activities! https://chat.whatsapp.com/HRCdXUEG6bE75v41kSIgqI
Upcoming Events
Fresher’s Welcome Event: 16 Oct
We are excited to announce our first event of the year: Welcome Drinks - coming up this Wednesday (16th)! This will include an introduction, Q&A, social games and of course free drinks and snacks. It’s a great opportunity to meet people and learn a bit more about the society.
When: 16 Oct, 19:00-21:00
Where: the Lightfoot Room in St John’s College
Everyone is welcome - no need to be a member or fresher - and no sign up required. We can’t wait to see many of you there.
Gin&GDP Debate Night: Oct 20
Join us for our first Gin&GDP event of the year, where members will be debating economics over drinks! Keep an eye out for further details on ticketing to follow!
When: 20 Oct, 19:00-22:00
Where: Little St Mary’s Church (Parish Centre)
Any and all economics experience is welcomed!
Sponsor Announcements
Bridgewater
Do you have an obsessive curiosity to understand the world? Get to know Bridgewater.
We are excited to share that Bridgewater Associates will be visiting Cambridge this October to recruit for our Investment Associate program.
At Bridgewater, we are on an audacious mission to build the deepest possible understanding of how the world’s markets and economies work and translate that into world-class investment performance. If you find our mission compelling, we encourage you to apply to be considered for our upcoming programming. Details below.
In-Person Interviews: Applications for our Summer 2025 Investment Associate program are currently open. Please note that the application process should take no more than ~5-10 minutes and we’d recommend applying sooner rather than later.
Virtual Info Session on October 14th: Join our Investment Associates to learn more about our unique research and investment strategy, culture, and internship program. RSVP here to attend.
In-Person Social on October 22nd: Stop by for a drink, some food, and to get to know several members of our Investment team in a casual setting. Apply to attend by completing a quick resume drop here.
More About the Role
Our Investment Associates (IAs) are the core team focused on developing and delivering alpha – the unique insights that enable us to beat markets. Our approach is rooted in a fundamental understanding of the drivers of economies and markets. IAs are focused on uncovering new relationships, testing new data sources, and codifying our logic into systematic trading strategies.
Learn More About Bridgewater
Read our insights: Every morning Bridgewater shares its latest insights with investors all around the globe through its flagship research publication, Bridgewater Daily Observations. Since the founding of the company, this report has become must-read analysis for thousands of investors and some of the world’s most influential policy makers.
Learn about our history and heritage: Bridgewater is one of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds of all-time, founded in 1975. We’ve developed an unparalleled understanding of global economies and financial markets to create systematic trading strategies designed to generate high and uncorrelated returns. Our clients are some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated institutional investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and endowments.
Our people: We are looking for exceptional minds; people with near-obsessive passion to understand how the world works, who are driven to produce insight, and who are undeterred by the unforgiving obstacles that markets challenge us with. These are brilliant and independent thinkers who call out drivel whenever they see it, and are committed to working tirelessly to solve the problems they perceive. They are energized by the prospect of deep, intense and intellectual collaboration with others, and by receiving and delivering blunt, direct, and at times critical feedback (which can be painful), all in pursuit of constant improvement – of our outcomes and ourselves. Achieving our goals requires our investors to have enduring multi-decade focus to develop expertise, and a voracious appetite to find and seize opportunities in capital markets.
Our culture: Our unique track record of success is a result of having great people operating in our distinctive, idea meritocratic culture. We seek intellectually curious, independent thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds to create diversity of thought, and we expect everyone to speak up to make sense of things. This creates an environment where ideas and views are comprehensively stress-tested to get the best answers.
Jane Street
Jane Street is coming to Cambridge! We will be hosting multiple events over the Michaelmas Term which we wanted to highlight. Feel free to share the information below and the attached flyer with your society members, friends and/or classmates, as well as anyone else who might be interested in attending and learning more about Jane Street! Food and swag will be provided at all!
Below are fliers and Instagram templates for each event, alongside a flier for all 3. Feel free to distribute as you wish!
Tech Talk - Monday, October 21st @ 01:00 pm
In this talk, we explore how transaction logs, state machine replication, and control flow inversion have allowed us to structure our applications in a way that lets us reliably deal with data races and process failures. We introduce Aria, a low-latency framework built on top of these ideas that has helped Jane Street scale our trading infrastructure while making it more performant, testable, and robust. Presented by Matt Else. Register here!
Estimathon® - Tuesday, October 22nd @ 18:30 pm
The Estimathon is a mind-bending mixture of math and trivia. In teams, you'll attempt 13 Fermi problems in 30 minutes, ranging from totally trivial to positively Putnamesque. Be prepared to come up with the best set of confidence intervals! Register here!
Strategy & Product Internship Presentation - Tuesday, 29 October @ 18:00 pm
Join us for an information session about Jane Street's Strategy and Product internship! This role offers a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, finance, and business strategy. You'll learn how SPs tackle challenging problems across departments, support the firm's growth, and gain a holistic perspective of our business. Register here!
We hope to see you there!